How To Treat Colon Cancer

Currently colon cancer using combination therapy, including surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, targeted therapy, and others.

1 Surgery: Surgery is the main treatment for colon cancer. Stage 0 colon cancer treated with surgery, chemotherapy and preoperative and postoperative radiotherapy can be added or traditional Chinese medicine.

2 Radiotherapy and chemotherapy: preoperative radiotherapy / chemotherapy can make the lesions shrink, increasing the effects of the operation. Postoperative radiotherapy / chemotherapy to kill the remaining lesions and reduce the recurrence and metastasis. For patients with advanced-stage colon cancer, chemotherapy can be used as a palliative treatment, improve patient quality of life and prolong survival time. However, radiotherapy and chemotherapy for patients with nausea, vomiting and other side effects were evident.

3 Targeted therapy: molecular targeted therapy is a new method of treatment, and have proven to be effective, according to the different parts of the tumor, targeted anticancer drugs to kill cancer cells and thus play a role, the impact on small normal tissue. Compared with traditional chemotherapy, targeted therapy fewer side effects.

4. Chinese Medicine: as one of the steps of comprehensive treatment, used in patients not suitable for surgery and patients who experienced recurrence after radiotherapy and chemotherapy.

5. Therapeutic intervention: refers to the exposure of the lesion does not occur surgery, blood vessels, skin, a few millimeters in diameter to make a small channel or pipe that is the body, the image (angiography, fluoroscopy, CT, MR, ultrasound) under the guidance of treatment local treatment for traumatic lesions minimal. Therapeutic intervention with minor injuries, simple, safe, effective, fewer complications and a hospital stay is shorter.

6. Photodynamic Therapy: Photodynamic therapy is the use of Photosensitizers and efficient laser to destroy cancer cells, is a noninvasive therapy. This therapy is completely different from surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and immunotherapy, is a fast developing new therapies and can be applied to the clinical treatment of colon cancer.

How to prevent colon cancer

Prevention of colon cancer first start of the diet.

- First of all manage your diet, a reasonable combination, intake of vitamins and trace elements, eat high-protein, high-fat, high-calorie foods.
- The second should be noted that you should leave the bad habit. Such as smoking, drinking, staying up all night, overeating, etc.
- Third, we must pay attention to is to actively treat constipation, ulcerative colitis, ulcers and other common polypoid bowel disease.
- Fourth, we must pay attention to is to actively exercise, persistence, and increase immunity.